Search JTA's historical archive dating back to 1923

News Brief

December 17, 2001
See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date
Advertisement

W.G. Sebald, an acclaimed German-born novelist who wrote about the Holocaust and memory, died last Friday in a car crash in England at 57. Sebald’s “The Emigrants” is about Jews who escaped the Holocaust, and “Austerlitz” focuses on a Holocaust survivor searching for his parents’ identity.

Recommended from JTA

Advertisement